PoemsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 248 páginas |
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... is consistently drawn may be supposed to be interesting , inasmuch as it gratifies this natural interest in knowledge of all kinds . What is not interesting , is that which does not add to our knowledge of any kind ; that vi PREFACE .
... is consistently drawn may be supposed to be interesting , inasmuch as it gratifies this natural interest in knowledge of all kinds . What is not interesting , is that which does not add to our knowledge of any kind ; that vi PREFACE .
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Matthew Arnold. not add to our knowledge of any kind ; that which is vaguely conceived and loosely drawn ; a representa- tion which is general , indeterminate , and faint , in- stead of being particular , precise , and firm . 66 Any ...
Matthew Arnold. not add to our knowledge of any kind ; that which is vaguely conceived and loosely drawn ; a representa- tion which is general , indeterminate , and faint , in- stead of being particular , precise , and firm . 66 Any ...
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... kind of poetry selected , and the careful construction of the poem . Their theory and practice alike , the admirable treatise of Aristotle , and the unrivalled works of their poets , exclaim with a thousand tongues- " All depends upon ...
... kind of poetry selected , and the careful construction of the poem . Their theory and practice alike , the admirable treatise of Aristotle , and the unrivalled works of their poets , exclaim with a thousand tongues- " All depends upon ...
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... kind is attempted , wonderful passages as it contains , and in spite of the unsurpassed beauty of the scenes which relate to Margaret , Faust itself , judged as a whole , and judged strictly as a poetical work , is defective : its ...
... kind is attempted , wonderful passages as it contains , and in spite of the unsurpassed beauty of the scenes which relate to Margaret , Faust itself , judged as a whole , and judged strictly as a poetical work , is defective : its ...
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... kind Creature found , and rear'd , and lov'd— Then Rustum took it for his glorious sign . And Sohrab bar'd that figure on his arm , And himself scann'd it long with mournful eyes , And then he touch'd it with his hand and said : — " How ...
... kind Creature found , and rear'd , and lov'd— Then Rustum took it for his glorious sign . And Sohrab bar'd that figure on his arm , And himself scann'd it long with mournful eyes , And then he touch'd it with his hand and said : — " How ...
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action arms art thou Asopus blood breast bright Brittany brow castle cheeks Chorasmian Church of Brou CIRCE clear cold Cornwall dark deep dost dream Duchess Empedocles eyes fame father feel Ferood fight forest gloom Goddess Gods Greek green grey grief Gudurz hair hand Hark head heart Heaven Helmund host Iacchus Ismenus Khiva King Marc light lips liv'd live lone lov'd Merlin modern mountain never night o'er Oxus pain pale pass'd Peran-Wisa Persian poem Poet poetical poetry rear'd red jackals round Ruksh Rustum sand sate SCHOLAR GIPSY Seistan Shakspeare shines side sits sleep smiling queen Sohrab soul spake spear spoke stood stream sweet Tartar tent Thebes thee thine thou art thou hast Tiresias to-day TRISTRAM AND ISEULT triumph and agony turn'd Tyntagil voice wandering warm waves wild wind young youth
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Página 161 - THE FORSAKEN MERMAN Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away! This way, this way! Call her once before you go — Call once yet! In a voice that she will know: "Margaret! Margaret!
Página 220 - OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Página 166 - For the priest, and the bell, and the holy well— For the wheel where I spun, And the blessed light of the sun!
Página 211 - For early didst thou leave the world, with powers Fresh, undiverted to the world without, Firm to their mark, not spent on other things; Free from the sick fatigue, the languid doubt, Which much to have tried, in much been baffled, brings.
Página 230 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.
Página 168 - On the blanched sands a gloom ; Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright sea-weed The ebb-tide leaves dry.
Página 215 - And snatch'd his rudder, and shook out more sail, And day and night held on indignantly O'er the blue Midland waters with the gale...
Página x - Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections : to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time.
Página 47 - Flow'd with the stream ; — all down his cold white side The crimson torrent ran, dim now and soil'd...
Página 38 - And he desired to draw forth the steel, And let the blood flow free, and so to die — But first he would convince his stubborn foe ; And, rising sternly on one arm, he said : — * Man, who art thou who dost deny my words ? Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.